Robert Innes-Smith's stories about his brief encounters with well-known figures including: Mary Whitehouse, Paul Getty, Bob Boothby, Harold Macmillan, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Lady Diana Cooper, Margaret Duchess of Argyll, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, Clement Attlee, Lady Carolyn Howard, Michael Scott, David Wolferston-Thomas, Turner Layton, Ruby Miller, The Countess of Dahousie, Bertie Russell, and The Duke of Alba and Berwick.